1725 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1725. Events June 12 – Émilie de Breteuil marries Marquis Florent-Claude du Chastellet. December – The library of Charles Killigrew, who was the Master of the Revels for 48 years, is sold a few months after his death. In China, 66 copies of a 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China are printed, which requires the crafting of 250,000 movable-type characters cast in bronze. New books Prose Joseph Addison – Miscellanies The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (first printed edition) Mary Davys – The Works of Mrs. Davys Daniel Defoe – The Complete English Tradesman George Bubb Dodington – An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole John Dyer – A New Miscellany Laurence Echard – The History of the Revelation Benjamin Franklin – A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain Johann Joseph Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Mount Parnassus, in Latin) Zachary Grey – A Defence of Our Antient and Modern Historians (against John Oldmixon) Eliza Haywood Bath-Intrigues Fantomina Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia Secret Histories, Novels and Poems Francis Hutcheson – An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (on aesthetics) John Oldmixon – A Review of Dr. Zachary Grey's Defence Richardson Pack – A New Collection of Miscellanies Christopher Pitt – Vida's Art of Poetry (translation of Marco Girolamo Vida) Richard Savage – The Authors of the Town William Shakespeare – The Works of Shakespear (edited by Pope) Jonathan Swift – Fraud Detected; or, The Hibernian Patriot Giambattista Vico – New Science Isaac Watts – Logick George Whitehead – The Christian Progress of George Whitehead Edward Young – The Universal Passion: Satire Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Aprobación apologetica del scepticismo médico del doctor Martín Martínez Diego de Torres Villarroel – Correo del otro mundo al gran Piscator de Salamanca